Somerby has a nice point about how pundits suddenly started caring about the overemphasis placed on predictions only when people hired by mainstream outlets started making predictions with actual rigor. But it also reminds me that, in addition to being obvious wishful thinking insulting to the...
Philip Roth, the greatest American writer of his era, claims to have retired. In the end, this might be a good thing, assuming he really retires. While his 90s and.
The best way to play the budget negotiations is to let the Bush tax cuts expire and use the resulting leverage to get something relatively favorable to liberal interests. The.
Alyssa Rosenberg leads us to discussions of a Casablanca sequel: The New York Post is reporting that there's some momentum behind a decades-old script treatment for a follow-up by one of the original movie's screenwriters, Howard Koch, which would have focused on the son Ilsa ends...
Exhibit A: Florida Exhibit B: Ohio
This may, believe it or not, be the scariest thing I've ever read about the modern GOP: Romney advisers are telling CBS News that there wasn't one person on the.
By request, a roughly chronological account of the last few months of our favorite troll's life: Romney already hitting it out of the park. Stick a fork in Obama, he’s done. PPP Polling (an outfit funded by Soros and used by DailyKos) has Obama up only...
My new favorite post-election reaction goes to Robert E. Murray, CEO of Murray Energy. He sent this prayer to America out to his workers, followed by his view of the.
One of the issues with teaching Game of Thrones is that nudity is treated very casually—so casually that the very idea of watching it with your mother feels deeply wrong..
I'm just gonna come out and say it: The failure rate of Trojans is way, way too high for comfort. From ESPN LA: "USC fired a student manager for deflating five game balls below regulation levels for the USC-Oregon game last Saturday, the school announced late Wednesday." Deflated...
Supplying some much needed context for discussions of military spending in Asia: The increase in absolute defense spending in Asia obscures an important truth, however; despite the increases, the economies.
Larison actually has a good and important point to make here, but I'm not sure why feels compelled to spoil it by saying something this silly. Here he is, responding.